{"id":16730,"date":"2017-02-15T13:49:09","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T18:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/?p=16730"},"modified":"2019-03-12T14:51:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:51:42","slug":"san-diego-mesa-college-provides-food-clothing-to-students-in-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/san-diego-mesa-college-provides-food-clothing-to-students-in-need\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Mesa College Provides Food &#038; Clothing to Students in Need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The costs of a college education has been steadily rising each year for many years now, and many students and their families find it more and more difficult to afford the tuition, room and board and the meal plans offered by colleges. \u00a0Even students who choose to live off campus find it difficult to pay for their ever increasing living costs. \u00a0Homelessness and hunger are a growing problem for many college students, but some colleges are doing what they can do to help.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One such institution is San Diego Mesa College, located in Clairemont Mesa, which has taken considerable steps towards helping its financially struggling students. \u00a0On February 9, 2017, Mesa College formally launched The Stand, which is dedicated to providing students in need with necessities such as food, clothing and toiletries. Located on the second floor of the campus\u2019s Student Services Center, the Stand is open to students from low-income families and those who have failed to qualify for financial aid, as both situations tend to leave students struggling financially. \u00a0The Stand has so far been well received by the college\u2019s community, which is understandable considering the ever increasing need of Mesa\u2019s students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A school-wide study conducted by the Mesa College\u2019s administration two years ago revealed some shocking statistics. \u00a0Roughly 39% of the school\u2019s study body, consisting of over 23,000 students, claimed to have difficulty in paying for their everyday meals. Of that 39%:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">15% described themselves as having a \u201ctremendous amount\u201d of difficulty when it came to paying for meals;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">27% had not been able to make their complete rent or mortgage payments during the previous year alone;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1.3% confessed to staying in a shelter; and<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">8% were currently residing in another form of temporary housing. \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The nearby institutions of City College and Miramar College produced surveys with similar results. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These numbers are shocking, and Mesa College is to be commended for its efforts to help students who are in such dire straits. \u00a0Dr. Pamela T. Luster, President of Mesa College states: \u00a0\u201cFood insecurity impacts students every day, and we will now be able to help our students stay focused on their academic journey.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition to food and toiletries, the Stand also comes equipped with clothing items that one might wear to a job interview, career fair, or other professional networking event, in the hope that it will increase students\u2019 success in the professional world. \u00a0As far as payment goes, the Stand operates on a credit point system, with students allotted a certain number of points to use each week. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Stand gladly accepts donations of foods that can be prepared easily and formal clothing items for both women and men. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The costs of a college education has been steadily rising each year for many years now, and many students and their families find it more and more difficult to afford the tuition, room and board and the meal plans offered by colleges. \u00a0Even students who choose to live off campus find it difficult to pay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":16720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[231,646,230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","category-making-a-difference","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/mesa-helps.png",830,533,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/mesa-helps-224x144.png",224,144,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/mesa-helps-300x193.png",300,193,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/mesa-helps.png",830,533,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/mesa-helps.png",830,533,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/mesa-helps.png",830,533,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/mesa-helps.png",830,533,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Samuel O'Brient","author_link":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/author\/samuel\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The costs of a college education has been steadily rising each year for many years now, and many students and their families find it more and more difficult to afford the tuition, room and board and the meal plans offered by colleges. \u00a0Even students who choose to live off campus find it difficult to pay&hellip;","featured_media_src_url":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/mesa-helps.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}